Definition of fowl

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Fowl (n.) Any domesticated bird used as food, as a hen, turkey, duck; in a more restricted sense, the common domestic cock or hen (Gallus domesticus)..

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Guano :: Guano (n.) A substance found in great abundance on some coasts or islands frequented by sea fowls, and composed chiefly of their excrement. It is rich in phosphates and ammonia, and is used as a powerful fertilizer..
Rooster :: Rooster (n.) The male of the domestic fowl; a cock.
Troopfowl :: Troopfowl (n.) The American scaup duck.
Lowbell :: Lowbell (n.) A bell used in fowling at night, to frighten birds, and, with a sudden light, to make them fly into a net..
Cro-quette :: Cro-quette (n.) A ball of minced meat, fowl, rice, or other ingredients, highly seasoned, and fried..
Peahen :: Peahen (n.) The hen or female peafowl.
Brahma :: Brahma (n.) A valuable variety of large, domestic fowl, peculiar in having the comb divided lengthwise into three parts, and the legs well feathered. There are two breeds, the dark or penciled, and the light; -- called also Brahmapootra..
Roost :: Roost (v. i.) To sit, rest, or sleep, as fowls on a pole, limb of a tree, etc.; to perch..
Fowl :: Fowl (v. i.) To catch or kill wild fowl, for game or food, as by shooting, or by decoys, nets, etc..
Decoy-man :: Decoy-man (n.) A man employed in decoying wild fowl.
Dandy-hen :: Dandy-hen (n. fem.) A bantam fowl.
Hen :: Hen (n.) The female of the domestic fowl; also, the female of grouse, pheasants, or any kind of birds; as, the heath hen; the gray hen..
Fowls :: Fowls (pl. ) of Fow.
Birding :: Birding (n.) Birdcatching or fowling.
Garefowl :: Garefowl (n.) The great auk; also, the razorbill. See Auk..
Shanghai :: Shanghai (n.) A large and tall breed of domestic fowl.
Cackler :: Cackler (n.) A fowl that cackles.
Fowling :: Fowling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Fow.
Batfowling :: Batfowling (n.) A mode of catching birds at night, by holding a torch or other light, and beating the bush or perch where they roost. The birds, flying to the light, are caught with nets or otherwise..
Microbion :: Microbion (n.) A microscopic organism; -- particularly applied to bacteria and especially to pathogenic forms; as, the microbe of fowl cholera..
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